O. Winston Link Museum
Winston Link Museum is a museum dedicated to the photography of O. Winston Link, the 20th-century railroad photographer widely considered the master of the juxtaposition of steam railroading and rural culture. He is most noted for his 1950s photographs of steam locomotives at night, lit by numerous flashbulbs. He carefully planned the lighting and the staging of these photos, placing human subjects in many.
O. Winston Link Museum
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Winston Link Museum is a museum dedicated to the photography of O. Winston Link, the 20th-century railroad photographer widely considered the master of the juxtaposition of steam railroading and rural culture. He is most noted for his 1950s photographs of steam locomotives at night, lit by numerous flashbulbs. He carefully planned the lighting and the staging of these photos, placing human subjects in many.
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Opened in January 2004, the museum is housed in a former Norfolk & Western Railway passenger train station in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. Also displayed is some of the equipment that Link used to create his nighttime photographs.
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• Name — O. Winston Link Museum • Established — 2004 01 • Location — Roanoke, Virginia • Type — Photography museum • Director — Kim Parker
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 16330008-2, O. Winston Link Museum (Roanoke, Va.).
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- 1.Steam, Steel & Stars: America's Last Steam Railroad. by Tim Hensley and O. Winston Link
- 2.2010a.
- 3.Douglas J. Harnesberger and Nancy Kraus. National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Norfolk and Western Railway Company Historic District. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. July 1998.
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